East Harlem Explosion Smashed Routines as Far as Two Blocks Away

MTA Driver Just Wanted 'to Get the Bus to the Safest Possible Place'

By

Ben Fox Rubin and

Joseph De Avila

Updated March 14, 2014 12:06 a.m. ET

The MTA bus stopped short Wednesday as a shock wave rolled across Park Avenue from where two buildings had just collapsed in an explosion. Inside the bus, some passengers urged driver Warvin Harris to let them off, but others told him to get them out of there.